Suggested Manila Feature: Header Image
I would like a new Macro Called something like {headerImage ()}. it would serve as a place keeper in the template for an image of the users choosing.A user could then easily add a logo, or head shot to an area of the site the theme designer chose. I imagine the most of the time a theme designer might add an area next to the site title. Much like in Dave's Harvard theme.
With this macro the user could swap the Harvard shield (example) for anything they wanted. This would be a huge benefit in the education space, since many of my users are teachers, and they want to add something to their site to make it their own, but don't want to have to enter the template and figure out how to add an image tag.
they could simply go to Prefs > Appearance , and type in the name of the image they want to be included in the header.
this macro should have the ability to designate a default image so that when the theme is first installed onto a site, there will be something there.
example: {headerImage (http://www.example.com/images/defaultImage.gif)}
Brent Simmons Has A Tip for Manila Users
IE 6 for Windows sometimes centers all or much of the content on a page for no readily apparent reason. It looks awful.
Sure, it's a browser bug, but you can work around it on your own sites. Here's how:
If you have a <!DOCTYPE...> tag at the top of your template, make sure it doesn't include the URL.
In other words, if it looks like this:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">Edit it so it looks like this:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">That's all there is to it.
Mark Pilgrim says that:
"This bug affected virtually every Manila user when IE 6 came out, because of consistently non-standards-compliant templates with standards-compliant DOCTYPEs."
That was probably my fault. (sorry) I really need to brush up on my DocTypes. Does anyone out there have a good resource?
Dreams do come true
Thanks Dave